Tag: NING

Ning, the company that makes it easy for anyone to create a free, custom social network, is dropping the free part of that equation. After a little business analysis, Ning determined that a whopping 75% of their traffic was coming from paid "premium" networks, not the free networks that most people associate with the company. In response, they're dropping free networks -- and a big chunk of the ...

Ning, a popular web service that lets you set up your own Facebook-style social network (and hosts it for you) just added something that Facebook and MySpace have had for quite a while now: apps. Like applications on those other, bigger, networks, Ning Apps are powered by OpenSocial, a much-hyped API for building third-party apps that work on multiple social networks. Open Social has been around ...

Marc Andreessen of Ning is our hero. Ning, the online platform that allows users to create and maintain their own social networks, seems to have a few naughtier communities its midst. We'd be more shocked to hear it didn't, quite frankly. This is the internet, after all. Some do find it surprising, however. Enough people, in fact, that Andreessen issued a statement on his blog today. Andreessen's ...

Microsoft became the market leader in operating system deployment largely by making its OS and software available to any hardware maker that wanted to license the technology. Apple, on the other hand, has always insisted the its OS should only run on Apple-labeled computers. So while Microsoft is often slammed for not being "open," the company owes much of what it is to early openness. And it ...